Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible to draw parallels between the horrors of the Salem Witch Trials and the fear-mongering during Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for Communists in the US in the 1950’s. Enhance students' knowledge of the Red Scare trials and compel them to draw the Salem Witch Trials parallels w

Have you considered teaching Shakespeare's OTHELLO?Universal themes such as xenophobia, racism, and stereotyping make this play relevant and engaging for students. All the materials you need for a fabulous teaching and learning experience are here in this OTHELLO COMPREHENSIVE UNIT-BUNDLED!The play

Looking for a formal, objective assessment of students' understanding of Othello? OTHELLO FINAL TESTThis resource is an effective way to assess students’ recall, comprehension, and analysis of Othello.There are 40 multiple choice questions each with answer four choices.There are 50 well-constructed

Electricity Partner Plays: These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that students can read with a partner. This set of scripts focuses on the science of electricity. It also includes a BONUS question/answer worksheet. After reading each script, students answer

Grammar review doesn't have to be boring and monotonous! Get kids up and moving with my interactive review games for grammar!
This is a classroom-tested, print and go review game for differentiating between parallel and non parallel structure. It gives 32 sentences. Answers provided. Instruction

Need a hand teaching grammar in a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-assess manner? Use this set of tools to introduce OR review parallel structure to middle and high school students!This concept is very common on standardized tests, especially the SAT and ACT, and it's also one of the ESSENTIAL tri

Engage your students and review parallel structure (parallelism) with this fun game. There are four rounds. In rounds one and two, students identify whether the sentences are parallel or nonparallel. In rounds three and four, students rewrite the sentences to correct the nonparallel structures. To

This product is a guided parallel task for Part 3 of the Common Core English Regents Exam that utilizes a section of the balcony scene from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This product is leveled for ninth graders, but is suitable for sophomores and juniors as well. This package comes as bot

Teaching parallelism or parallel structure can be so much fun! It's one of my favorite lessons of the year, and this game is why! Instead of lecturing about grammar and parallel structure, try this game. The game cards are ready to cut and pass out. Each card has an example of parallelism. You give

Transcription Tic-Tac-Toe is a learning game that uses reading, writing, speaking, and listening, all in one activity! It is part of a group of strategies called sheltered language strategies.Sheltered language strategies are teaching strategies that focus on teaching academic vocabulary at the same

Twelve different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of properties of matter, forms of energy, the flow of electricity, forces, and more do double duty by sharing scientific information with students while developing comprehension, fluency, and the joy of reading!These plays are each two p

Get your students up and moving while they practice academic vocabulary with their peers!Curious about trying out a Quiz-Quiz-Trade Activity, but not quite ready to commit? Try out this free sample! You could use it as a practice to get students used to the format of the game.FREE Quiz-Quiz-Trade: R

Parallelism is one of those little grammar things (yes, I said things) that is so easy, but before doing this PowerPoint my students had no clue,regardless of how many times I explained it to them. In this PowerPoint,we play some pattern games. It makes the tough, stupid grammar thing (sorry for the

This curriculum bundle includes PowerPoint presentations for direct instruction, worksheets, and assessments. Differentiated reading passages and questions, as well as skills practice, support all fourth grade Common Core State Standards for literature.Created by master teacher Brenda Kovich, these

Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers for ELA Reading Informational Texts and Fiction/Literature for Grades 9-10 (Also includes the organizers for grades 6, 7, and 8 because the skills build upon one another each year.)This IS included in the following bundles: • Common Core Bundle for Grades 9-1

Want to be done planning your high school poetry lessons for the rest of your career? A collection of questions, poetry activities, and writing prompts on 51 poems that I have taught multiple times over the years, this bundle will provide you with three months of rigorous, engaging and ready-to-go

Review language skills and grammar with this bundle that includes all of my language PowerPoint Trashketball games (updated with new games regularly). Students meet the expectations of Common Core Language Standards while studying the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in these fun, a

“The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher is a great radio play that can be used to teach a multitude of literary elements and skills! The resources in this product cover ALL the Common Core Standards for Literature! The Products also cover Writing Standards 1-3!
Besides resources for “The Hitchhiker

These Hamlet guided reading questions are packed with comprehension, soliloquy analysis, character descriptions, quotes, and so much more. This bundle is sure to engage and challenge your students when studying Shakespeare's masterpiece. With a separate reading guide for each act, this is designed a

This extensive 277 page unit plan for King Lear is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our King Lear unit is completely original and has bee

This 180-page bundle of Romeo & Juliet materials includes an introductory PowerPoint, a comprehensive guide to promote active reading, comprehension quizzes, close reading assessments, and a summative test. Answer keys for all resources are included. With these materials, students will: Define

I looked and could not find an official script, so then I purchased some of the other homemade ones out there and was very disappointed. My 6/7/8 class really wanted to do it as a play ... so I wrote a script. The preview is a full pdf version for free. If you would like to support the crazy numb

After your class has finished Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s tense drama, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, take a break from the play and use this 45-minute non-fiction lesson to draw compelling parallels between the actions of Cassius, Brutus, and the other conspirators with the actions of John Wilkes